Preface: 13th International Symposium on Crystallization in Glasses and Liquids (Crystallization 2024)

The articles presented in this special section follow the 13th International Symposium on Crystallization in Glasses and Liquids (Crystallization 2024) held in the historic city of Orléans, France. The web of the event is still available at https://www.lestudium-ias.com/events/13th-international-symposium-crystallization-glasses-and-liquids. The Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies (Le Studium) had the pleasure and honor to host this symposium, which is the thirteenth in a series of successful meetings organized by the International Commission on Glass (ICG) Technical Committee 07 (TC07), the theme of which is Crystallization in Glasses and Glass-ceramics. More information about this technical committee, and also the ICG, can be found at http://www.icglass.org/. Previous versions of this symposium have been held in the United States in 1960, 1971, 1981, 1992 and 2006, in Brazil 1996 and 2009, in Liechtenstein in 2000, in the UK in 2003, in Germany in 2012, in Japan in 2015, and in Spain in 2017. Over the years, these meetings have established a strong international reputation for disseminating the state-of-the-art in crystallization research, from fundamental aspects to innovative glass-ceramic products.